Sharing is saving: the short story of a shared apartment

Presentation:

Hi! I’m an Italian offsite student living in Milan. Here I share a flat with my best friend Federica, we have been living togeather for two years already. In our apartment we share the bedroom, the kitchen, the bathroom and many more stuff.

Unity is strength:

Sharing the electric consumption is a winning choice! We are students depending on our families and we need to save money in order to continue to study. So we started looking for energy saving a long time ago. When Federica and I are in the same room studing or eating meals we share the same lamp so the energy consumption is devided by two instead of being used the double amount of time. The same reasoning can be done for the heating system and the base households consumption like the fridge and the television (which we never use by the way).

An other important cut of energy consumption is made by the use of the washing machine togeather. We collect our loundry for a long time and then we wash things in the same time so that the washing machine is never working half load. This means that the energy we are using is not wasted but fully consumed. At least our loundry is smelling the same and our nose is not getting confused!

So my first step into energy saving is to suggest to share the most you can in order to reduce the personal amount of energy waste!